By the middle of August he had established a chain of posts, with a regiment or two at each, on a line upon which he afterwards marched, from Weston by way of Bulltown, Sutton, and Summersville to Gauley Bridge.
[Illustration Map--Affair At Carnifex Ferry] As soon as he received the news of Floyd's attack upon Tyler at Cross Lanes, he hastened his preparations and began his march southward from Clarksburg with three brigades, having left the Upper Potomac line in command of General Kelley, and the Cheat Mountain region in command of General J.J.Reynolds.

His route (already indicated) was a rough one, and the portion of it between Sutton and Summersville, over Birch Mountain, was very wild and difficult.

He crossed the mountain on the 9th, and left his bivouac on the morning of the 10th of September, before daybreak.

Marching through Summersville, he reached Cross Lanes about two o'clock in the afternoon.

[Footnote: Official Records, vol.v.p.